Ok, what's the worst food you have ever eaten?

[Angelus]

It can be anything and from anywhere in the world.

Me, I choose boca burgers. I had them the other day, and I still taste that horrible taste in my mouth. I swear...that was like eating a cardboard/styrofoam mixture of some sorts. I don't understand how some of my friends eat that $@%&!

Which food do you nominate as the worst food you have ever tasted?

[feminazi]

1. lamb liver...absolutely disgusting

*

[fudge stripe cookays]

2. Lychee nuts. Yeccch!

I tried one a couple years ago, and it tasted like I imagine an eyeball must taste.

Kind of moist, but squishy, not really sweet, not really anything. Just....gross!!!!!!

For the record, I LOVE Boca burgers!

[Angelus]

3. Ewwww....

That nut does sound disgusting. I don't even know what it is and I'm never going to eat it.

[fudge stripe cookays]

4. Something Asian, I believe.

That was my first AND last exposure to it!

I'm very leery now when people say, "These are really good! Try one!"

[Guy_Montag]

5. I like lychees,

but I agree they are what I imagine eating eyeballs to be like.

[fudge stripe cookays]

6. I guess some of us are just more eyeball connossieurs than others.

Or something.

[chaska]

99. I quite like them, my own self.

[qb]

7. Grandma's experiment with cold avocado soup.

Runner-up: My cousin's organic sugarless berry pie. (not just sugarless, sweetener-less)

[Guy_Montag]

8. Kidneys

It's not that they taste bad (only had them in steak & kidney pie) but the idea of eating what an animal filters it's piss through. Yuck

Anyone had sweetbreads? I don't think I could bring myself to eat them.

[BigMcLargehuge]

11. steak and kidney pie

one of my favorites actually. I practically lived on that stuff when I lived in the UK.

[fudge stripe cookays]

40. I actually heard something about that...

a year or so ago from a health standpoint. I can't remember if it was on a talk show, NPR, or some other media.

Your fears are NOT unfounded. Kidneys are not the most healthful portion of animals to be eating. Sorru I can't remember the source!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. Gnocchi eerily resembling a brick wall

As opposed to well-done gnocchi, which rocks.

[Shananigans]

34. mmmm....gnocchi is my favorite food!

[BigMcLargehuge]

10. moose ribs

smelled like human waste, tasted like gamey leather. BLECH!!!

[TahitiNut]

12. Squid.

Prepared in the Greek style. I don't have much of a problem with squid sushi or fake abalone, though.

[Angelus]

13. Oh, c'mon people! You all had horrible food you ate!

[forgethell]

14. Yankee-cooked grits

they have absolutely no concept of the subtle, nuanced, complex beauty of this food from heaven.

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

15. Possum

Oily with a cord-like texture and a moldy meat taste.

I only had one bite.

[Misunderestimator]

16. Prairie Oysters

and I love boca burgers!

On edit... for those who need a definition: http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/RockyMtnOyster.h...

[forgethell]

59. Hey, that's a very interesting site

that you linked. Thanks!!

[Misunderestimator]

93. LOL ... anytime :) n/t

[Teddy_Salad]

17. Cheese.

Or anything with cheese in it.

[Angelus]

18. Yuck, I agree with you, man...

cheese is gross.

It makes my stomach really upset.

[terrya]

19. Liver. Liver in onions, liver drowned in catsup...

Try to disguise the taste. I did. It still tastes nasty.

[Loonman]

20. Squash

Awful.

[redqueen]

21. Sushi

I liked the sashimi, but the sushi - nuh uh! I don't know if it was the seaweed or what. Either that or crawfish.

Oh and any of the sweets that my Indian coworkers have brought in. I love Indian entrees, but the sweets are a whole other story.

[JohnLocke]

66. Heathen!

[redqueen]

70. lol

What? The sushi or the Indian sweets?

I think it's the seaweed I don't like. Aren't that and the rice the only differences between sushi and sashimi?

[JohnLocke]

73. Both.

[Whitacre D_WI]

22. I have never had a bad food.

I have had BADLY PREPARED food of just about every stripe.

There are a few foods I don't personally care for, though -- not a big fan of oysters (but I do like other bivalves), don't care for rice puddings -- but that doesn't mean they're "bad foods."

[eyesroll]

30. Tacos de tripas?

Just asking.

[Whitacre D_WI]

36. I will admit that I did not care for that particular preparation.

I did eat most of it, though

[arwalden]

23. Chicken Liver, Gizzards, Calve's Liver... ANY ORGAN

is totally off limits.

-- Allen

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

25. What a coincidence

I just had chicken liver for lunch today. I veritably feasted on it, too.

And what's gizzards?

[redqueen]

32. Gizzards

If I'm not mistaken, they're the organs that grind up the grain that the chicken eats. Quite tough, but I love them fried! Yum!

[Whitacre D_WI]

37. Even pig organs?

They are delicious!

As the French say, tout est bon dans le cochon!

[flamingyouth]

24. McDonald's breakfast burrito

I was traveling and desperate - and I was sick for three days afterward.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

26. Tripe

Called callos in Spain, dobradinha in Brazil. Beyound yucky, rubbery and smells FOUL!

[Kellanved]

28. Andouillette in France

Sausages, they look very tasty. But in fact it's tripe stuffed with trip - at first it doesn't taste bad, just herbs and Dijon mustard (there is always mustard), but then...

[redqueen]

33. Is Andouille sausage in New Orleans made the same way?

It's delicioso!

[Kellanved]

35. AFAIK no

I've heard that the seasoning is similar, but I believe the Louisiana style is not made from tripe.

[Whitacre D_WI]

47. No, it's quite a bit different.

I love a good cajun andouille. Never had andouillette, but -- it's chitlin sausage. Intestines bunched up and stuffed in, well, intestines.

Nothing against intestines, I prefer natural casings for my sausage. I just don't think I want the sausage to be ENTIRELY casings.

That said, I would try it, at least once.

[redqueen]

71. Same here

I'll try anything twice. Or maybe 3 times.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

77. "Nothing against intestines, I prefer natural casings for my sausage."

Locking. No sex threads.

[Kellanved]

27. Dunkin Donut's "New England Maple Cheddar Sandwich "

Bought it in New Haven Union Station and ... yuck. The texture, the chemical taste, the fat, ...

[The empressof all]

29. Chinese food in Lake Chelan WA

I could swear to god it was over cooked spaghetti noodles covered with Campbell's cream of mushroom soup with Chung King veggies on top. We took one bite and ran to the closest 7-11 for bags of chips and coffee.

[southpaw]

31. Never eaten anything that I wouldn't eat again if I had to...

Never been real picky, but arwalden is close to the mark with the "no organs" thing...

[GirlinContempt]

38. This weird Chinese candy...

I don't remember what it was called, but it was like a chewy ball of dried, bitter, sour fruit or something. Ick.

[Whitacre D_WI]

48. You'd better not be talking about HAW.

Haw is the BEST CANDY EVER!

[GirlinContempt]

61. I don't know

I can't remember what it was called

[fryguy]

39. hashee (I think that's what it was called)

Its a dish from the Republic of Georgia which is made by taking the left over parts of a pig (inners, knuckles, etc.) and boiling it. It smelled like the water used to cook hotdogs in and is servered in the morning with a bowl of crushed, raw garlic and salt. Originally a dish for the poor - they would use whatever was left over from the rich folks dinner - it is now used as a hangover helper....I got one spoonfull in my mouth and could barely swallow it.....worst thing - EVER

[fudge stripe cookays]

41. And I bet the people there...

are delightful to be near what with everyone REEKING of garlic and all.

That dish does sound dreadful.

[fryguy]

62. yeah, it was

and after the one spoon full I "tasted" I was promptly given a bottle of homemade vodka to wash it down with...stuff was the color of diluted ice tea. toss in everyone in the room smoking like chimneys and it had me running to the bathroom, er outhouse....great trip!

[Whitacre D_WI]

53. That sounds delish!

[Kellanved]

78. yuck

That was frequently the Lunch in my High School. Oh that brings back memories


(the cafeteria was shut down at least once a year by the local food safety inspectors.)

[tsakshaug]

42. Lutefisk

cod stored in lye.

yummy!

[Angelus]

43. Ewww...I agree.

Lutefisk sucks!

I don't understand how my fellow Minnesotans can eat that crap!

[tsakshaug]

46. My grandmother

Would always have some on hand when we would visit..........

I think we saw her maybe 8 times
I wonder why......

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

79. Whew, what a relief.

I though you'd eaten your grandmother.

[flamingyouth]

68. The smell alone is what gets me

My grandmother used to make "the mensfolk" (as she called them) keep and eat it in the garage - she wouldn't even allow it in the house!

[JVS]

97. Lutefisk can be good if made properly.

The problem is that too many people who make it don't do it right.

[KayLaw]

44. Oyster casserole

I followed a recipe from the Miami Herald and it was just awful. Also, roast lamb, liver, turnips, and dandelion greens.

[rucky]

45. Haggis

hands down

[Guy_Montag]

49. yum yum

One of my favourite foods.

[qwertyMike]

50. Tofu

If that gunk can be classified as 'food'.

[MisterP]

51. experimental wild rice w/ peanut butter and lemon juice

the remainder of it was chucked with alacrity

[Whitacre D_WI]

52. That is an affront to everything decent.

WHY?!

[Zookeeper]

54. Sea Urchin sushi...

I know many people just love it, but I thought it was horrid. It was a gift from the sushi chef, though, so I forced myself to finish it and smile.

[Canuckistanian]

55. Sea Cucumber

At a Japanese restaurant

[Zero Gravitas]

58. Ugh

I had sea cucumber once.. ONCE! never again!

[Zookeeper]

69. Yes, it's pretty vile. n/t

[phillybri]

56. Potato Buds

[GoddessOfGuinness]

57. Attain Cookies & Cream Meal Replacement Bar

One bite, and you'll swear you didn't really want to eat anyway.

[everythingsxen]

60. Leg of Lamb with Rice

In this once instance, I ordered a leg of lamb and it came with fat, yellow rice.

The lamb had a strange rotting taste.

As I ate it, I had a tactile and taste hallucination, that I was eating rotting meat, with maggots (the rice) writhing through it.

It was expensive, so I ate it anyway.

It was an... unpleasant.. meal.

[Servo300]

63. cottage cheese

Simply can't hack it.

[redqueen]

72. Really?

I love that stuff... esp. with pineapple or peaches or any kind of fruit really. One of my favorite snacks.

I've even put it in lasagna before.

[High Sierra Buck]

64. for me, it was my first time at eating steamed chick inside of egg

For those who do not know, this will pretty much gross you out.

They take a fertilized egg of about maybe 10 days, (there is a small chicken in the egg), and they steam the egg for about 10 minutes. You take the egg, and use a spoon to break a hole in one end of it, then bottoms up, the entire chick slides into your mouth where you are supposed to chew it up......yum.....crunch crunch crunch, pull some feathers out, oooops, here is a beak, crunch crunch cruch, stop gag reflex 5 or 6 times, eyes water, crunch, gag, cruch, gag, pull out more feathers and bones and stuff, crunch, crunch, ugggghhhhh, gag, almost puke, blah.....finally had to spit it out before I lost it....

Not something I will ever try again.

[Kadie]

65. eww eww eww.... gross

[southpaw]

67. Dude... that is truly sick...

Is this an ethnic thing? If so, what culture spawned such an atrocity.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

80. Probably a prank to exact revenge on Caucasians (nt)

[Padraig18]

74. Haggis!

Haggis is the most disgusting food ever to be dreamt up by a half-starved and semi-demented people... "Oh hell, the loch will thaw in a week or so, so I guess we CAN boil chopped-up lungs in a sheep's stomach and eat it, just to stay alive until we can catch some fish"...

[northzax]

88. obviously, you never bothered to eat rotten shark

mmm, rotten shark. Take one shark. kill it. bury it in sand. wait. wait. six months later, dig it up.

fabulous.

[gpandas]

75. hummus sp? n/t

[bif]

76. Okra.

Tasted like snot.

[bratcatinok]

81. I was looking to see if anyone had

said boiled okra.

I don't care if they mix it in some louisiana type dish or whether it's boiled alone. It's the nastiest most peurile stuff I've ever had.

I can barely tolerate it fried because the slime is still there in the middle.

[bif]

84. And yet, I don't mind zucchinni

There's just something "special" about okra I guess.

[redqueen]

82. Um

How do you know what snot tastes like? EW! You eat your boogers! You eat your boogers!

Seriously, though, I love it fried and in stew too. mmmmm, snot stew!

[bratcatinok]

83. Erm, It's not

like I haven't ever had post nasal drip or anything. You can have all of my portion. I'm friendly that way.

[redqueen]

87. Yeah I get what you're saying

I guess I associate that more with the texture of snot than the flavor.

lol... it's not... my dad LOVES to say that.

[Parrcrow]

85. Lobster

Eons ago someone was walking along a beach and saw one and said; "I wonder what that big bug looking thing tastes like?"

He was an asshole.

[SmileyBoy]

86. Dampier Fruit (???) It's a tropical fruit that tastes like sweet bread.

I forgot the name, but it absolutely tastes like

[Endangered Specie]

89. Tofu {eom}

[Angelus]

96. Yeah, tofu sucks.

[Merrick]

90. cigarette butts

I lost a bet.

[DoNotRefill]

91. Korean food in Germany. DON'T DO IT!!!!!

[Kellanved]

92. I disagree

It depends on where you look - there is a Korean community in every western major city, as a result we *do* have acceptable Korean food. It's just not trivial to find.

[DoNotRefill]

94. I LOVE Korean food.

I just found that the korean food served in Germany was uniformly horrible. If it was just one restaurant, I'd write it off as just being a bad one, but it was more than a couple of them.

[Kellanved]

95. well

Finding a good Asian restaurant in Germany is a challenge - but not an impossibly hard one (1. find someone from the nation you're looking for and ask. 2. Get the waiter to bring you the "real" menu).

I have to admit that the situation has improved vastly in the past five years - it was not always that way.

[JVS]

98. There is a Korean restaurant that sell food and malt liquor in my town

Most of their food is good, but there is always a bit of kimchi. The kimchi is bad.

[Onlooker]

100. 100 year old eggs

An odd friend of mine--a genius with a glass eye that seemed to move in the wrong direction--insisted I try a 100 year old egg. From what I understand they're a Chinese delicacy. I think they are duck eggs, and are "cooked" by burying them underground for several months.

Well, to eat this egg, you pound the side of spoon against it to chip away hard dried mud. It takes a few minutes. Finally, you reach this classic delicacy. You break away the shell and the aroma of rotten eggs immediately greets you. In fact, at this point I tried to turn down the egg, but my eccentric friend was so offended, I had to continue.

When the shell is removed, you have stinking egg that looks awful. The part you know to be the white of the egg is a translucent brown and the part you know as the yolk is a liquid green. It tastes as good as it sounds. It was an almost retching experience.

[LWolf]

101. school cafeteria pizza

closely followed by school cafeteria hot dogs, then hamburgers.

And don't forget the school cafeteria "salad;" a little condiment cup filled with wilted, browning iceberg lettuce and a few carrot scrapings.

[SW FL Dem]

102. Tie - in one meal at a sleepover they fed me liver and turnips

that was in 1969 and I still remember. YUCK!!